You can clone the whole of your old drive to the new without having to
worry about losing data. Talk to your local computer dealer, he may do
it for you if you do not feel confident.
The new drive should transfer data much faster than your old drive.

Orf Bartrop

Chuck Narrow wrote:

>I have an existing 10gb hard drive and need to upgrate. I bought a 40gb
>WD hard drive and would like to make it a slave to the 10gb hd.  I do not
>want the hassle of having to move all of my existing programs, data  etc
>to the larger drive for fear of loosing someting I negleted to move.  Is
>it a problem doing this? The transfer speed of the 40gb hd is 7200 and
>I'm sure the 5 year old 10gb hd is slower.  Does it really matter?  Do
>you have any suggestions about this that might ease the pain of this
>installation? I am running xp pro. with 215mg ram, and 1.4ghz processor.
>Thanks. chuck Narrow
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